FPC Old Growth Hike

The Forest Park Conservancy is a non-profit group that coordinates its efforts with Portland Parks & Recreation's City Nature Division to protect and improve Forest Park. As a thank you to some of its regular volunteers it recently led a group of them on a hike through old-growth acreage it owns. The site is located near the north end of the park. Matt Wagoner, Trails & Restoration Manager, led the hikers and provided commentary on what they were seeing. Mikala Soroka, Volunteer Coordinator, and Lucy Cohen and Graham Klag, both Trails & Restoration Coordinators, assisted with the hike.

Volunteers get ready to begin their hike at the gated entrance.
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Matt Wagoner waits for stragglers before beginning the hike through the Conservancy's stand of old-growth forest.
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Matt leads an uphill stretch of the hike.
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The uphill stretch is felt in the lungs. Portland is to the east on the horizon.
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Matt stops to discuss the forest environment with the hikers.
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Matt's shoes frame a forest mushroom.
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Dead but still part of the forest's ecosystem, a tree gets scrutiny from the hiking party.
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Hikers pass a former trail-blocker.
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One hiker steps over a chiseled log on the trail.
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Matt leads the way on a simple foot bridge.
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Time to hug an old-growth specimen before the hike is over.
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A snap in the forest.
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Snappin' with the phone.
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Look and shoot before the hike is over.
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People were looking everywhere at something catching their eyes.
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A group shot of a wonderful variety of people: a ceramacist, engineers, a writer, a biologist, a hi-techie, a linguist, a retired commercial airline pilot, a banjo player, an artist, to name a few.
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FPC Old Growth Hike